Example sentences of "[pron] be more " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I though we had already established that Steve and I are more than business partners . ’ |
| 2 | The Festival 's come of age of late and I am more than happy that my sax playing has been the soundtrack for the Festival 's cinema trailer in recent years . |
| 3 | His wife who I am told still resides up at Fiesole has been heard to call her husband ‘ the old Brute ’ and when a wife speaks thus I am more of a mind to listen than not . |
| 4 | I am more than pleased to see the Tiller troupe remain . |
| 5 | I have learnt enough about the Alexander Technique to realize that I have much more to learn , and that noticeable change can be a slow process , but I am more than happy with the benefits that I have received so far . |
| 6 | ‘ I am more than pleased with you . |
| 7 | I am more of a hard-working midfielder and regard sweeper as my best position . ’ |
| 8 | I try to set an example , and I am more than willing to accept any degree of personal criticism and , indeed , get a lot of it — some of it rather hurtful . |
| 9 | I am more than a little confident that its fruition will be more than evident before the last kick of the season . |
| 10 | ‘ I am more of a personal assistant to Mr Steen than a secretary . |
| 11 | One of the top ANC men came back from the Dar Es Salaam talks and told us , ‘ I am more than ever convinced that violence is not the way . |
| 12 | ‘ I am more of a farmer , My Lord . |
| 13 | ‘ After two years married to an Englishman , I am more than happy . ’ |
| 14 | I am more than happy to pay tribute to those gallant and courageous civil servants who led or followed my hon. Friend on that exciting detour on the continent . |
| 15 | I am more than grateful for their generous and spontaneous responses to our questionnaire , made in some cases in times of personal difficulty , strain or distress . |
| 16 | ‘ I am more than confident that the standard of athletics we will see in the Vauxhall Invitation meeting will be better than we have ever seen here before . ’ |
| 17 | I am more than happy to contribute whatever I can . ’ |
| 18 | Put it this way Trace I am more petrified than about this than you are . |
| 19 | I am more aware , like , you know , people , of what people say . |
| 20 | I think better of myself today as a matter of fact , I am more of a confident fighter than I ever have been . |
| 21 | If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’ |
| 22 | One of the spearheads of the new Las Vegas movement , Wynn says proudly : ‘ I 'm more of a Disney person than a casino guy . ’ |
| 23 | Dear love , I get plenty of time to think about us these days , and I 'm more than ever grateful that I have been given such a wonderful person as you to be my wife . |
| 24 | Though I 'm more of a fish man myself . |
| 25 | I do have to say that on occasion I found myself baulking at a certain inconsistent and artificialsounding short reverberation effect following the odd sudden soloist ( trumpet or saxophone ) sforzando ( two specific cases are mentioned above ) , but this is a price I 'm more than willing to pay for the added ambience and clarity that Nippon Columbia has afforded these treasurable recordings . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , I 'm not so much a guitarist ; I 'm more of a listener — still . |
| 27 | I 'm more interested in the , the kind of s so called philosophical erm ideas that have been raised , as whether this , you know , these kind of ideas of a , a kind of ideal state are just possible . |
| 28 | I 'm more than welcome . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ So I 'm more of a fucking man because I learned how to kill people , and did ? ’ |
| 30 | So I I 'm more alert , I wake up earlier . |